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Weekly Contest #187
“Sorry buddy, I’m allergic.” Alex kept a shoe between him and the black cat while he tried to shuffle through the front door to his apartment. The cat was a relative newcomer to the street, but then again, so was Alex. In fact, he felt he would be more likely to pick the cat out of a lineup than any neighbor. Usually he spotted it poking about the October piles of street leaves when he got home from work. Sometimes it followed halfway up his stoop, but then stopped as if it knew better than to indulge in a hope so contrary to life experience...
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